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The climactic death of Clare (not "Claire") in Passing, both novel and film, is ambiguous. Three characters bear possible responsibility for this tragedy, Clare included. The...

I don't think there's been much mention on FILMLEAF of Charlie Kaufman's I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, certainly not a review. This film is currently commanding a lot of my thinking about movies....

BEST CINEMA OF 2019

Updated list of favorite films from the last year before the pandemic.

SORRY WE MISSED YOU (Ken Loach/UK)
VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa/Portugal)

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The best 2021 release I have seen so far is a documentary series directed (co-written, co-produced) by Raoul Peck and available on HBO. The last time I was so enthralled by a television series was in...

One thing I notice based on the American best lists for 2021 is that this is the first year that a movie directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi receives a release in this country (whatever a release means...

"The Hand of God" is the film chosen for the re-opening of the Cosford Cinema , even if it will only show movies intermittently, not as an everyday theater. I will teach a course that has a screening...

I shoulda put a smily face next to my correction. Emojis were invented for a reason. By the way, I want to mention a few titles that may continue to impress me and find their way into the list: Steve...

I'm the one who posted the quote, not Chris.


Given how prolific Kurosawa was, it's weird Chris and I both love Ikiru and Rashomon more than any others from his filmography. Yes, a ringing...

The passage quoted below is from the most recent Wyler retrospective (at the Quad in NYC). I think that it may be of interest to you.

"In The American Cinema, Andrew Sarris grouped William Wyler...

I am sorry it took me so long to respond to your post. One thing to bear in mind is that some element of subjectivity factors into the decision to include or not to include a movie despite my efforts...

1939 is said to have been the best year in the history of film. I have been sharing my on-going, perrennially revised cannon for decades now, and I have organized it according to year of world...

One addition to my personal canon of achievements in the art of film is a 13 minute film directed by Alain Resnais: Guernica (1951)
It uses Picasso's "Guernica" and earlier works by the greatest...

I think I would put three other movies ahead of CRASH among my faves:
DEAD RINGERS (1988)
NAKED LUNCH (1991)
SPIDER (2002)

I have the Masterpiece collection with 10 Blurays made for the European Market.
I added Cronnenberg's amazing EASTERN PROMISES (2007)which mixes the gangster genre with a murder mystery where the...

I have a Kubrick Bluray boxset.
It has an inferior image quality when compared with the 4k transfer you have.
Maybe I splurge and I buy it anyway, since now finally I will have a top-of-the-line...

Three recent films have proven over repeated viewings to belong among the best of all time in my humble but passionate estimation:
From 2018
-----THE IMAGE BOOK (Godard/France-Switzerland) ...

That's great. I can't think of a better way to spend one's time. I cannot get enough of golden age Hollywood. I enjoy the average movie made in Hollywood then much more than today's output, that's...

Of course, my canon includes the John Ford western that exemplifies the rebirth of the genre (STAGECOACH in that fabled year of 1939), the genre at its most complex, philosophical and mature (THE...

I hope you are doing great Jason. I think it's wonderful that you enjoyed TCM, especially with these movies; i'm especially fond of THE UNKNOWN. The gothic romance is so compelling, so moving. I love...

I am certainly a late responder. I am thinking about this 2017 list and that film by Paul Thomas Anderson that came out #1, best film of the year, on a lot of polls, including the one run by the...

Dreadful indeed, ma brutha.
Ah...good to see you here rock n'rolling again.
Apparently "The Doors" was going to be released with improved sound and 4k definition and Stone decided might as well to...

I watch it a lot because some of it is great, not surprisingly, it turns out, a lot of these aches were the ones shot by George Cukor, who had a long history of collaboration with producer David O....

I watch it a lot because some of it is great, not surprisingly, it turns out, a lot of these aches were the ones shot by George Cukor, who had a long history of collaboration with producer David O....

It's been a decade since Jack Nicholson retired. I don't think he is ever coming back. Never. Not after saying "No" to a juicy, fun role that seems designed for him: Toni Erdmann's father in the...

I have modified my list of "best personal" films (to use a term used by Tab that implies there is both objectivity and subjectivity in one's esthetic judgements) for the year 1995. I have moved Larry...